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I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.
Joan Jett
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Joan Jett
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: September 22
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I love school. I was a great student.
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Radio has changed, there was a little bit of difference around the country and now that is gone and everything is uniform. That is not the only place it's happening in music, there's a lot of consolidation.
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I leave for the show at least an hour ahead, and I do some vocal warm-ups, and that's pretty much it.
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A lot of people would say well that's not a bad reputation. you sound like a pussy and I would say yea. but I am passionate about music and being taken seriously about my music, so if you're going to mess with that, we have a problem.
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I learned how to scream from Marc Bolan.
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So now 20 years later people want us to get together so they can take shots at all these old babes trying to get back some youth. I mean come on I've been there. I know what the press would do.
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I don't know if I miss it per se, but I do miss the fact that there just doesn't seem to be any rock 'n' roll out there anyplace. Everything does seem kind of tame. It's even hard in Manhattan to go out and find a good band to go see.
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I think it's important to have mystique.
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Just be yourself and everything will fall in line, the way it's supposed to be. If you're yourself, that's the best thing you can do, because you can never go damn if I'd only been myself. Live an authentic life and you don't have to worry about your reputation.
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Can't break free from the things that you do. I wanna walk, but I run back to you, that's why I hate myself for loving you.
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